Scott LaRocca

PhD student at NAU

Remote sensing, forest drought responses, spatiotemporal stats

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@puslapuu @Teacrumpets @realkirkpatrick @SwipeWright I mean, Nixon created the EPA, and signed the clean air and endangered species acts into law

Reagan created amnesty for illegal immigrants

GW Bush expanded Medicare and launched a presidential initiative to combat AIDS in Africa

Repubs have become far more extreme on all this

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@WorldSTEM_Bob @realkirkpatrick @SwipeWright And yet here we see the opposite

I wonder why for example my super conservative grandpa became disgusted with modern conservatives around the point that Trump came around

Repubs used to be people like McCain and Romney, come on, those were extremely more moderate than today

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@edward81502 @realkirkpatrick @SwipeWright Here you go

Although I fear sometimes that modern conservatives don’t trust any formerly reputable for all orgs, such as Pew

The more extreme the party has become the more they’ve also retreated into only trusting conservative information too

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@ehansalytics @realkirkpatrick @SwipeWright Yeah right

This graph from Pew shows how ideology has changed … which one is moving the most?

Although I doubt the graph will convince anyone, as repubs have basically retreated from shared sources of info such a Pew research and now only trust conservative sources of info

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@Teacrumpets @realkirkpatrick @SwipeWright Nah, I’m a center left guy and I can clearly see the right wing has grown very far right

It’s def not only 1 side

Also wild to say the far right loonies don’t control the party today, lol

Even my super conservative grandpas been disgusted with what they’ve become for years now

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@CoodyP @dzhng @IterIntellectus I like Phoenix

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@Terminader78 @dzhng @IterIntellectus Egypt could never

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@vazserox @seymorewilly @paulg Not was there one when the first troops stormed into Poland

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@sirmarz1985 @allenanalysis @Grok is government spending open data that anyone can look at?

If so, did the Trump administration spend more than the Biden administration so far?

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@Onuora @PawelHuryn @grok Guy: shares info on AI being misaligned

Twitter people: Grok is this true?

We are cooked 😅

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@Horizon_News_ @pli_cachete https://t.co/BWE9BYunCR

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@MCConroy2 @SpeakerJohnson Literally the first thing they put in the constitution is that there should be no religious influence on governance

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@JanMan113 @thetonymichaels So even with all that you’re claiming Trump still spent more so far. Why? Where did it all go?

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@JustifytheTruth @iamAtheistGirl Of course not, you’re never going to find agreement among all humans.

Religion won’t do it either, because there’s a diversity of beliefs.

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@JustifytheTruth @iamAtheistGirl By what causes harm vs what causes well-being is a good one

Certainly better than: whatever these few guys wrote is the absolute truth. (Except for all the obviously bad or impractical parts, I guess).

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@CJ95845527 @iamAtheistGirl That’s because they’re just called hospitals and orphanages

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@Gsarto3514 @iamAtheistGirl Luckily enough of us believe that harming others is bad, because we’re social and empathetic animals

We all have mothers, brothers, sisters, and can put ourselves in the place of victims

Nothing else is needed.

Whereas you needed to read it in a book for some reason

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@Gsarto3514 @iamAtheistGirl What do you mean there’s no such thing?

I said we’re literally wired to recognize that behavior.

That’s like saying there’s no such thing as “a friend” because that’s just some category we recognize and there wasn’t some ancient superbeing who gave the category legitimacy

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@Gsarto3514 @iamAtheistGirl No, I think it’s wired into our social biology to recognize sadistic behavior.

I also think you take your morality from somewhere else than the Bible just as I do.

For example, the Bible condones slavery and never once condemns it.

But I bet you’d say slavery is bad, no? Why?

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@Gsarto3514 @iamAtheistGirl Our biology largely dictates what makes us better off vs what makes us suffer.

Other than that, there’s no such thing as “objective good and evil”, those are religious ideas which don’t actually exist in the real world.

Which is why every culture developed diff. ethical norms